TechCrunch
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
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The Decoder
ia is buying into its customer Meta, which plans to run more of its AI agents on Nvidia hardware. Nvidia is investing $3 billion in Meta's planned equity offering, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Wired
I ranked six AI agents, from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet, on how well they completed basic tasks. Last year, I remember sitting in WIRED’s office, complaining to my colleagues nonstop about how much AI agents suck.
MIT Technology Review
Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply.
The Verge
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major" discoveries in math, computer science, and physics.